A Manufacturing Imperative: Enterprise SOA

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A MANUFACTURING IMPERATIVE:
ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED
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Contents
Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Enterprise SOA: The "Home Theater System" of Information Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Innovation and Standardization Become Teammates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Enterprise SOA in Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SAP Pioneers Enterprise SOA Approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Immediate Benefits for Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Single Investment in Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12New and Improved Business Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Decreased Costs per Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Semantic Interoperability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Middleware Eliminated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Next: The Partner Ecosystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Executive Summary
Every manufacturing plant needs to operate as efficiently as pos- Over time, more innovative industries, such as electronics, sible within the limits of its budget. In the past, reaching this have solved the same problem deviling IT by implementing seemingly simple goal was almost impossible for most manufac- standardized ways to assemble components into a product, turing sites because of the lack of integration between plant sys- ... [download for more]